All poetry is political, to some degree.

All is context. Choose yours carefully, where you have a choice.

I think the team will think this was an O.K. year. Some guys had career years, but the reality is that we didn't get it done at the end of the day.

If anxiety is the major force of our contemporary condition, a lot of poetry - including my own, mostly - sort of tries to escape that, fly off into magical thinking or bewilderment or whatever.

I think no matter how snarky you try to be, poetry will always find a way to make a spiritual goal out of what you're doing.

Poetry is a way of always paying attention to the world for me; a way of letting the world stick to me instead of being anxious or estranged, just being present in the world.

I would be most content if my children grew up to be the kind of people who think decorating consists mostly of building enough bookshelves.

Trust me." The words are a prayer, not a warranty. I understand that now.

If optimism is the highest form of courage -- as I am beginning to believe it is -- then these students are all heroes.

To strive tirelessly and at all times to reach one's goal - therein lies the secret of success.

The product has to work. It has to be a good product. An enormous number of them are all hype with no value at all. People get into them because they want to make a lot of quick, easy money.

Self-inflicted misery smirks under its crown of thorns.

The pilgrim is a poetic traveler, one who believes that there is poetry on the road, at the heart of everything.

I don't buy anything which is Islamization of knowledge. I don't understand what it means in fact.

I am very much afraid that the loss of Cyrenaica will have serious political consequences for the Duce.

O, it is excellent To have a giant's strength; but it is tyrannous To use it like a giant.